Everyone on the Left should have seen it coming. The Right has successfully exploited the fallout from “the Great Awokening” — the risky tendency among the liberal and “progressive” left to express unbridled enthusiasm for speech policing that has led to censorship, firings, and suppression of dissent.
A very short list of social liberalism’s censorious excesses includes David Shor’s firing from Civis Analytics for tweeting a study on violent protests; Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying resigning under pressure from Evergreen State College after questioning the race-based “Day of Absence,” which urged white students and faculty to stay off campus; and an Ontario school library removing all books,…